The Beginning of the End
Part 2
Author: Jade14
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Year: 025
Sun: 0230
Place: Coronet City, Corellia
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Airway - Coronet City
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Booster let Hal lead the way to the speeder they had used to get to the Cantina. It was semi-new; blue, with a white stripe running lengthwise down the outside covering. The speeder had a removable cover, seating that could accommodate five people, and a large cargo compartment. It had been a state of the art model when Hal had received it from his parents for his seventeenth life day. Booster sighed as he climbed into the plush nerfhide seats. Foe his seventeenth life day, he had gotten a kiss from his mother and a Corellian currency chip worth five credits. Booster strapped himself in, and looked over to Hal, who was in the passenger seat.
" Where to?" Hal started the engine, and pulled onto a busy airway.
" I told you. I have to get something from the base, then we'll catch a transport to Gus Treta."
" Oh, okay." The two friends sat in silence for a moment, before Booster spoke again. "So, are you going to tell your father you got married while we're on the base, or does he already know?" Hal paled slightly.
" Umm...I'll tell him later."
" Okay." Booster looked out the window for a moment, watching the ground cars and the pedestrians traveling below him, before turning back to Hal. " So..how'd it happen?"
" How'd what happen?" Hal asked, absent-mindedly.
" Umm...you getting married?"
" Oh." Hal concentrated on passing a slow moving public transport before answering Booster. " Well, Nyche and I had been dating for two weeks... you knew that, right?" Booster nodded. " Okay... so we'd been dating two weeks and we were walking down Treasure Ship Row- I was looking for a witness I was supposed to meet there and he never showed- and we saw this 'get married quick' place, so we decided to do it."
" Just like that?" Hal nodded.
" Yup." Booster looked at him quizically.
" Do you love her?"
" Of course! I fell in love with her the second I layed eyes on her!" He paused for a moment, and leaned back in his seat. " It was so weird 'Ter. I sat down next to her in the cantina on Gus Treta after Jagg introduced us, and after talking to her for only about five minutes, I knew I was going to spend the rest of my life with her." Hal stopped talking, and looked over at Booster, who was silently staring out the window. Hal looked back at the road and then said: " You know, Booster, I would have told you, but you were on that shipping run to Corousant for the last three weeks..." Booster waved a hand scilencing his friend.
" I know, I know. I just..." He sighed. " Nevermind." Hal gave his friend a concerned look.
" No, what?" Booster hesitated for a moment, then spoke.
" I just wish you would have waited for me. I am your best friend. At leat I thought I was." Booster looked back out the window, and an uncomfortable scilence hung between the two men. Finally, Hal spoke.
" You know, we are having a big wedding, at a hall with a reception and all that. Will you be my best man?"
" Sure." Hal smiles slyly.
" Just don't forget the rings." Booster chuckled.
" So now you're insulting me?"
" No, not you. Just you're intelligence." Booster reached out and mockingly slapped Hal. The two men laughed all the way to the base, the small tear in theri friendship mended.
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TBC